Land & Water Australia's Community Fellowships, funded by a private philanthropist, provided people with the opportunity to tell their stories.

This is a non-academic award enabled 'ordinary' people who work within the natural resource management field to share their extraordinary actions.

From 2001 - 2004 we funded more than 25 people who have worked within our communities to tell their stories about living sustainably. They used  their community fellowships to write about, speak on, or show people their work.

Land & Water Australia's Community Fellows are:

2003-2004

• Kevin and Kathy Collins - Regeneration with Banksias - developing the skills and extending the interest
• John Craven - Conflict over clean water results in successful community capacity building
• John Dainton - Mending the Goulburn-Broken - The John Dainton Story
• Bob Giles - The Para Paddocks - Saved by the People
• Samuel Angus Howell - 'Rotherlea' - Hosting community co-operation, research & development, in land & water management
• Nina Brown - Greenie Mula
• Jeanette Wormald - Horizons and Heartlands - Songs and Images from the Mallee
• Bob Morrish - The life and lines of Cooper Creek: A tour of the Gulf Country by a grazier from Cooper Creek
• Hugo Spooner - Productivity with Compassion - Not an impossible dream
• Max and Evelyn Warren - Milk production through sustainable Land & Water Utilisation

2002-2003

• Karyn Bradford - 'Convergence: wetlands and communities'
• Carolyn Daniel - 'Sharing corporate knowledge to maintain motivation in community groups/support networks'
• Jack Seekamp - 'The Seekamp collection 2002'
• Lance and Addie Jones - 'Farmer as researcher: forty years in the field'
• John Fenton - 'Transforming the Land: the story of 'Lanark''
• Bill and Debbie Hill - 'Our Search for a Sustainable Future'
• John Fyfe - 'Easy steps to a triple bottom line'
• Michael Petter - 'Growing Sense of Place'
• Eric Fisher - 'Wilgara Wetland - sustainably managing wetlands'
• John Ive - 'Successfully managing saline watertables to realise production and environment synergies'
• Mandy Martin - 'Land$cape: Gold and Water'
• Yalmambirra - The Mungabareena Reserve: Wiradjuri Reconciliation Project 2000 - a 3 year journey

2001-2002

• Kate Andrews - 'Integrated catchment management in the Lake Eyre Basin'
• Christine Jones, Darryl Cluff, Colin Seis, Bruce Maynard, Greg Martin - 'Farming without farming'
• Bob McKenzie - 'A walk down the Hopkins'
• Lawry Pitman - 'a virtual farming experience'
• John Weatherstone - 'Looking back, moving forward - Renaissance at Lyndfield'

For more information contact Land&WaterAustralia@lwa.gov.au